Hi all, Thanks for replying, everyone. Instead of replying to each one of you separately, I am replying to myself, primarily to add more info to this query.
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:24 AM, P Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > does anyone know of an existing product, or a firm that develops such > a product catering to cadastral and land records management, but using > a completely open source stack? > A friend of mine is working in a SA country that has a new policy that all software at the national level must be non-commercial open source. A nice idea, but it plays havoc with their current cadastral and registry records management system running on a commercial, closed-source (well known) software platform. They now want to expand from a few municipality pilot to 10 times as many munis, and to eventually cover the entire country in the next decade. Their desire is to try replicate the current system using open source software. They have an estimate for the programming job, primarily based on the amount spent on programming the current system (not including the licenses for the base, commercial software). Their hope is to spend a similar amount programming an open source solution that can be replicated in the 200 or so munis without any additional cost for the software licenses. They have seen at least one other open source cadastral system implemented in a country in Africa, but found that system to be very weak, amateurish. -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss